Councils told to sell golf course to fund services
FLOG your golf course to fund front-line public services, English councils were told yesterday after another huge funding cut.
Local authorities already facing a financial black hole saw their budgets slashed again by £4 billion in the Autumn Statement.
Parks, children’s centres, libraries, museums and leisure centres will be closed completely or scaled back as councils try to protect life-saving social care, the Local Government Association warned.
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